Experience eco-luxury and wellness at this Hamilton studio
- Erin Montgomery
- 26 Oct 2019
Eco-luxury and wellness: these terms have been gaining a lot of traction over the last few years.
As a society we are becoming more aware of the environment around us, what we put in or on our bodies and making conscious efforts to choose products that are more green and environmentally friendly. But in the beauty industry sometimes those choices are not always easy to find. Living a clean life should not mean you’re compromising on quality or luxury.
Let us introduce Krista Swayze, owner at Flourish Skin Studio, an eco spa that promotes eco-luxury and wellness through their clean, green products and services.
Flourish Skin Studio offers your traditional manicure, pedicure, and facial treatments but their services differ in that they are always striving to decrease their carbon footprint. At their studio, a pedicure is done by wrapping their clients’ feet in hot towels to avoid wasting water by soaking the feet. They use an all-natural nail and body care line called SpaRitual that offers a full range of body products and amazing Vegan Nourishing Nail Colour that is free of the 13 most harmful chemicals in nail polishes.
The SpaRitual motto is “Slow Beauty in a Fast World” and Flourish has absolutely adopted that philosophy in their nail services. Flourish is about promoting a healthy lifestyle overall and self-care is at the heart of that.
“I realize all of the dangers of so many harmful chemicals that we are exposed to every day, especially in our self-care products, and I just wanted to provide a space and products that takes the guesswork out of purchasing,” says Swayze. “The number of people who are concerned about these harmful chemicals in their products is growing every day and it’s no wonder why, with all the studies out there proving these things cause so many different issues. We all need to do our part to protect the environment, ourselves, our families and for the generations to come.”
For the spa, the aim is to provide an experience that relaxes the body and soothes the soul, including their nail services. They even use a hair removal system that is soy based, biodegradable, and vegan that hurts far less than other products on the market.
“I have this incredible opportunity to do something different. Why not provide products and services that people know are safe and effective, while never compromising quality or luxury? It was a no brainer for me,” explains Swayze.
Flourish Skin Studio is also an active member of the Hamilton Community. Aside from promoting a healthy lifestyle and teaching people about self care, Flourish contributes to a number of different charitable organizations. Locally, they work with Interval House of Hamilton, Food4Kids Hamilton, Communities Helping Kids as well as the Neighbour 2 Neighbour Foodbank.
Flourish also contributes to “Trees for the Future”, which is an initiative created by the skin care company they carry, Eminence Organics. Every time someone purchases an Eminence products from Flourish, they plant a tree. Their “Flourish Forest” is a representation of how many trees they have planted since they opened in June 2015. The “Flourish Forest” is now close to 3,000!
These green efforts have not gone unnoticed as Flourish is recognized as a Green Certified Spa. They award this certification to the spas who actively support the green movement in doing their part for the environment, while encouraging others to do the same.
“We try to reduce our carbon footprint as much as we can and we had to meet a list of criteria in order to obtain the Green Certification,” says Swayze. “Some of our practices include using only LED lighting, using power bars for all of our equipment that we turn off every night, and using sterilizable tools including metal foot and nail files instead of disposables.” Other practices include purchasing in bulk and only sending email receipts to cut down on paper waste.
In designing their space, about 95% of the furniture was second hand. To build their pedicure platform, they used 100 year old cedar planks rescued from the demolition of a historic Hamilton building. The list goes on, but it’s clear that this eco spa practices what they preach!
Check Flourish Skin Studio out yourself by stopping by in person at 1157 Rymal Road East Unit 4 or visit online at flourishskinstudio.ca
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